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Backup Exec Agents And Options

GFK
Level 3
Partner Employee
The bottom line is that IT administration is not as simple as it was a few years ago. In fact, keeping your business data for critical applications protected is pretty tricky. Backing up, that’s not the tricky bit, is it? Backing stuff up, on the face of it, is really easy. You can back up most data pretty easily with most backup technology, but it is the restoring it that is troubling.

The whole point of agents and options is to improve, extend and enhance the backing up and restoration of critical data. As I’ve said in a previous blog, backing up Active Directory is pretty easy – restoring it can be a nightmare if you are not using Backup Exec AD Agent. So BE has a number of pretty critical agents and options to help organisations to expand the effectiveness of their backup strategy and specifically deal with the idiosyncrasies of specific application backup nightmares.

The BE 12.5 Media Server and Agent of Windows Systems licenses include: Advanced Open File Option (AOFO) and Intelligent Disaster Recovery Option (IDRO). Advanced Open File Option (AOFO) and Intelligent Disaster Recovery Option (IDRO). These are included with each core license and with each Agent for Windows Systems.

Be 12.5 has a number of new and enhanced agents Backup Exec 12.5 for Windows Servers which include the new agent for VMware Virtual Infrastructures and Microsoft Virtual Servers, both of which deliver one agent delivering optimised data protection to an unlimited number of either VMware or Microsoft virtual systems through a single management console; granular file folder recovery from a single backup; comprehensive backup for virtual systems and legacy physical systems supporting both disk and tape storage environments.

The new Backup Exec 12.5 Remote Media Agent for Linux Server gives organisations the ability to directly attach a storage device to a remote Linux servers for added flexibility and reduced bandwidth requirements for backup jobs on remote Linux servers. Each Remote Media Agent for Linux Servers includes a Remote Agent for Linux Servers and all backup and recovery job configurations are centrally managed through the primary Windows media server console.

The Backup Exec NDMP Option supports the backup and restore of Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) greatly expanding the number of disk targets that can be selected for disk-based data protection. The option enables NAS device storage configurations with tape devices attached and protects NDMP devices residing in remote locations including in a Storage Area Network (SAN) configurations.

In early April BE management was enhanced with BEIM(Backup Exec Infrastructure Management Option), adding functionality that enhances CASO (BE Central Admin Server Option). Built on the Altiris technology, the infrastructure manager enables inventory for an entire Backup Exec environment including current and older versions of Backup Exec; discover, locate, and manage existing/new server resources in a Backup Exec environment as well as locate unprotected servers; define and deploy the correct patch levels to BE and BESR servers, applications and databases across an environment or upgrade, deploy, configure and manage from BE version 9.1 to 12.5.

So, it’s probably worth taking another look at the agents and options that could enhance your backup.

(For a complete list of agents and options, please see the Backup Exec 12.5 License and Support Services guide, available at www.symantec.com .)